He Lost Half His Net Worth…Then Became A Super High Roller! Ben Heath Shares His Story
The Table 1 Podcast
7,289 views
Ben Heath was supposed to do something sensible.
Finance.
Teaching.
Something with math.
Something that made his parents feel normal.
Instead, he played $3.50 sit-n-gos.
A lot of them.
Ben grew up in Brighton, England, playing chess, strategy games, and tiny family card games for one-cent coins. Then he went to Warwick, studied math, and started making a little money online during university.
Not millions.
Not nosebleeds.
Just enough to avoid getting a job.
Then one of his tutors casually mentioned that a few former students had gone into professional poker.
That was all it took.
Ben finished his degree, skipped the finance track, and gave himself two years to make poker work.
From there, things got weird fast.
He met Charlie Carrel through a university Skype group, went to Amsterdam with people he’d never met, moved to London, grinded Zoom cash, played live cash on weekends, went broke, ran it back, and started taking shots that were probably not approved by any financial advisor.
At one point, he had around $100K to his name…
then put a huge chunk of it into a €50K in Barcelona.
It went badly.
Then it went very, very well.
Aussie Millions runner-up.
A Wynn score he somehow left in the cage.
A backpack full of cash walking back to the Rio.
A SCOOP swap with Charlie that changed the year.
A WSOP $50K bracelet.
Triton.
Super high rollers.
$250Ks.
$500Ks.
And a runner-up finish for around $8 million.
In this episode of The Table 1 Podcast, Ben joins Art Parmann and Justin Young to talk about the full ride:
♠️ Growing up in Brighton and studying math
♥️ Playing $3.50 180-mans for university spending money
♦️ Why he skipped finance and chose poker
♣️ Meeting Charlie Carrel and moving to London
♠️ Going broke, rebuilding, and aggressive bankroll shots
♥️ The Barcelona €50K shot that nearly wrecked him
♦️ The Aussie Millions run that changed everything
♣️ Winning the WSOP $50K bracelet
♠️ The Sam Soverel time bank drama
♥️ How he moved into the super high roller world
♦️ Playing $500K buy-ins
♣️ Coaching high-stakes players
♠️ Why he barely plays the WSOP Main Event anymore
♥️ Why Phenom Poker got his attention
We also get into:
chess
Brighton hippies
volunteering in Fiji
getting stuck in Madrid during COVID
Triton invite politics
why some $50Ks are not like other $50Ks
backing, swapping, and selling action
and what it feels like to play a half-million-dollar buy-in.
This one is a poker story about shot-taking, timing, discipline, and somehow staying calm while playing tournaments most humans would need a spreadsheet just to emotionally process.
👇 Drop a comment:
Would you ever fire half your net worth in one tournament?
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Show Notes
01:30 — Brighton, Family & Early Games
04:45 — Uncle Tom, Chess & Tiny Gambling
06:16 — Math School, Warwick & Poker in College
12:34 — $3.50 180-Mans for Spending Money
15:00 — The Tutor Who Made Poker Seem Possible
18:25 — The Two-Year Poker Plan
19:28 — Fiji, Volunteering & Spending the Bankroll
24:06 — Meeting Charlie Carrel
25:17 — Amsterdam → Moving to London
27:43 — Zoom Cash, Live Cash & Bankroll Swings
29:05 — Bahamas Shot-Taking
30:43 — The Barcelona €50K Disaster
33:15 — Aussie Millions Breakthrough
42:02 — Wynn Score + Backpack Full of Cash
47:42 — WSOP $50K Bracelet Run
51:18 — The Time Bank Drama
55:20 — Moving Into Super High Rollers
58:08 — COVID, PartyPoker & Madrid Lockdown
1:01:13 — Current High Roller Schedule
1:03:12 — Coaching High-Stakes Players
1:05:45 — Triton Invitee System
1:10:07 — The $500K Buy-In / $8M Runner-Up
1:15:29 — Phenom Poker
1:21:35 — WSOP Plans & Why He Skips the Main Event
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Ben’s Links:
https://phenompoker.com/?r=BenHeath
X - https://x.com/BenHeath48
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If you don’t like the interview, go listen to a helmuth one I’m sure you will love it (I won’t)
Folks, if you’re under 35 and get your hands on a mega gambling- MUTAL FUNDS, and get backed.
EZ game, no?
He Lost Half His Net Worth…Then Became A Super High Roller! Ben Heath Shares His Story
The Table 1 Podcast
7,289 views
Ben Heath was supposed to do something sensible.
Finance.
Teaching.
Something with math.
Something that made his parents feel normal.
Instead, he played $3.50 sit-n-gos.
A lot of them.
Ben grew up in Brighton, England, playing chess, strategy games, and tiny family card games for one-cent coins. Then he went to Warwick, studied math, and started making a little money online during university.
Not millions.
Not nosebleeds.
Just enough to avoid getting a job.
Then one of his tutors casually mentioned that a few former students had gone into professional poker.
That was all it took.
Ben finished his degree, skipped the finance track, and gave himself two years to make poker work.
From there, things got weird fast.
He met Charlie Carrel through a university Skype group, went to Amsterdam with people he’d never met, moved to London, grinded Zoom cash, played live cash on weekends, went broke, ran it back, and started taking shots that were probably not approved by any financial advisor.
At one point, he had around $100K to his name…
then put a huge chunk of it into a €50K in Barcelona.
It went badly.
Then it went very, very well.
Aussie Millions runner-up.
A Wynn score he somehow left in the cage.
A backpack full of cash walking back to the Rio.
A SCOOP swap with Charlie that changed the year.
A WSOP $50K bracelet.
Triton.
Super high rollers.
$250Ks.
$500Ks.
And a runner-up finish for around $8 million.
In this episode of The Table 1 Podcast, Ben joins Art Parmann and Justin Young to talk about the full ride:
♠️ Growing up in Brighton and studying math
♥️ Playing $3.50 180-mans for university spending money
♦️ Why he skipped finance and chose poker
♣️ Meeting Charlie Carrel and moving to London
♠️ Going broke, rebuilding, and aggressive bankroll shots
♥️ The Barcelona €50K shot that nearly wrecked him
♦️ The Aussie Millions run that changed everything
♣️ Winning the WSOP $50K bracelet
♠️ The Sam Soverel time bank drama
♥️ How he moved into the super high roller world
♦️ Playing $500K buy-ins
♣️ Coaching high-stakes players
♠️ Why he barely plays the WSOP Main Event anymore
♥️ Why Phenom Poker got his attention
We also get into:
chess
Brighton hippies
volunteering in Fiji
getting stuck in Madrid during COVID
Triton invite politics
why some $50Ks are not like other $50Ks
backing, swapping, and selling action
and what it feels like to play a half-million-dollar buy-in.
This one is a poker story about shot-taking, timing, discipline, and somehow staying calm while playing tournaments most humans would need a spreadsheet just to emotionally process.
👇 Drop a comment:
Would you ever fire half your net worth in one tournament?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Show Notes
01:30 — Brighton, Family & Early Games
04:45 — Uncle Tom, Chess & Tiny Gambling
06:16 — Math School, Warwick & Poker in College
12:34 — $3.50 180-Mans for Spending Money
15:00 — The Tutor Who Made Poker Seem Possible
18:25 — The Two-Year Poker Plan
19:28 — Fiji, Volunteering & Spending the Bankroll
24:06 — Meeting Charlie Carrel
25:17 — Amsterdam → Moving to London
27:43 — Zoom Cash, Live Cash & Bankroll Swings
29:05 — Bahamas Shot-Taking
30:43 — The Barcelona €50K Disaster
33:15 — Aussie Millions Breakthrough
42:02 — Wynn Score + Backpack Full of Cash
47:42 — WSOP $50K Bracelet Run
51:18 — The Time Bank Drama
55:20 — Moving Into Super High Rollers
58:08 — COVID, PartyPoker & Madrid Lockdown
1:01:13 — Current High Roller Schedule
1:03:12 — Coaching High-Stakes Players
1:05:45 — Triton Invitee System
1:10:07 — The $500K Buy-In / $8M Runner-Up
1:15:29 — Phenom Poker
1:21:35 — WSOP Plans & Why He Skips the Main Event
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ben’s Links:
https://phenompoker.com/?r=BenHeath
X - https://x.com/BenHeath48
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
T1 Links
Play with us in Vegas:
https://table1.vegas
Card Player Magazine:
https://table1.vegas/cardplayer
Follow us:
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